New Version of Free
Google Translate Lets You Translate Using Camera
There are several APP’s that
will translate languages, but this is the first one I have seen that is
supposed to skillfully read a sign using your phone's camera, and then translate it into English for
your, right on your phone screen. Will
miracles never cease?
Along that same line (camera
photo’s translating into text) I have enjoyed that feature of my favorite
APP, Evernot for 18 months. I can take a photo of a sign, or anything text, and file it in
Evernote as a “note”, usually with a label or "note title" I type in, but I guess
that would not be essential. Then, a miracle happens. Evernote’s computer in the cloud reads what’s
on the sign, or business card, or whatever, and converts the photo of a word
into a hidden text version, so that I can use word searches to find the photo. Not unlike some business card apps, of
course, but this one does many signs, even some handwritten cursive.
Example, I took a photo of a
tow-away warning sign with a phone number for the towing company (illegally parked cars
would be towed). Now, whenever I need to call that company to tow away an illegally parked car, I can just put the word "Tow” or “Towing” in the search window, and it will immediately bring up
the photo of that sign, with the word “tow” highlighted in yellow for me.
Another example: I shot a
photo of a friend’s hand written passwords for her computer, some in cursive,
some printed in pencil. It finds those
on a search also.
Now the new Google app takes
it a step further – photograph a sign on a Paris street and then read, in English, what
it says. That’s progress.
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